From: "Henning Hraban Ramm" <hraban@fiee.net>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:55:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <954f61110712050155y3332796fubaf402e4108f8523@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115224fb0712050042s1c5f0ffg5ec3e9066d5703f8@mail.gmail.com>
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> 2007/12/5, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>:
>
> > - deo -> ? (if at all)
> > gmh - German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
> > goh - German, Old High (ca.750-1050)
No! "deo" ist modern German in old orthography (pre-2005).
> 1.) In German, Slovenian, Croatian, (maybe in other languages as well)
> > ... one can use two types of quotes:
> > - „" U+201E/U+201C & ‚' U+201A/U+2018 (sorry, a bug in gmail reencodes
> them)
> > - »« U+00BB/U+00AB & ›‹ U+203A/U+2039
> It is also common two write «text ‹text› text» in German.
That's Swiss (de_CH). In de_DE the guillemets point inwards.
(Difference between de_CH and fr: in French they have French spacing, i.e.
space between punctuation and word.)
> > 4.) deo
> > \mainlanguage[de][alternative=old] ??? (no idea what that is about)
>
> The old rules should't be used any longer :-)
Don't think too short: You might want to typeset older texts in their
typography. Or if you work for FAZ guys.
I think we should keep the current syntax with mkii and allow better control
> in the mkiv code.
>
It's a pity that ConTeXt uses non-standard codes at all. But I guess we
should keep backwards compatibility.
Perhaps we could introduce the ISO codes as ISO.de_DE or the like?
Greetlings, Hraban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-05 1:40 Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-05 7:43 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-12-05 8:20 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-12-05 8:33 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-12-05 10:38 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-05 8:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-05 9:55 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2007-12-05 10:45 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-12-05 11:16 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2007-12-05 11:22 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-05 20:29 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-12-05 21:18 ` Mojca Miklavec
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